Set sail on adventure for a hearty breakfast with me hearties. Pancakes with Pirates is an opportunity to get up close and personal with your favorite treasure seekers. Black Sails Adventures will be onsite to bring your dreams of to life while Castaway Grill presents delicious pancakes topped with gold (butter and syrup). Purchase tickets for 9:00 am or 10:00 am and include a pancake breakfast with 50 minutes of pirate fun.
Join Nick Monroe, Museum Educator at the Cape Fear Museum as he presents a program on sailors and privateers of the 18th Century. Monroe will discuss the daily life and wardrobe of sailors and how that influenced pirates of the day.
Monroe has deep experience of the day to day lives of historic figures, having worked at both State Historical Sites Fort Fisher and Fort Anderson as an interpreter and educator.
On summer vacation at her grandpa’s, Mia discovers a mysterious piece of astronomical machinery. Edek, Mia’s eccentric uncle, tricks the girl into using the tool’s secret powers to change the world’s seasons. She quickly realizes the consequences of what they are going to do. Edek doesn’t want to let the plan go.
You’re invited to get up close with some of the more familiar creatures found in our ocean.
Our touch tank pool allows you to gently touch marine animals such as sea stars, sea urchins, whelks, horseshoe crabs, and hermit crabs. These animals live in a variety of habitats and have developed many ways to survive the waves and predators. Volunteers are on hand to assist and teach you about these incredible animals.
Did you know, when a sea urchin “hugs” your finger if you gently touch its spines, it’s actually checking you out: Are you food or predator? If you’re neither, the animal will just gradually release you.
Immerse yourself in the beauty of Chichén Itzá, Mexico. Listen to the story of the ancient Maya civilization. Experience Tales of the Maya Skies.
Explore Maya science, art and mythology. Tales of the Maya Skies inspires and educates through its description of the Maya’s astronomical achievements and how astronomy connected them to the Universe.
Strap on a virtual reality (VR) headset and get a 360-degree view of the ocean. Dive with fish, sharks, turtles, and more to learn about these amazing animals and their habitat.
Our Science in 3D exhibit uses a virtual reality mobile classroom to bring this exciting experience to you! Through VR technology, explore a virtual science laboratory that brings the real world into the lab and teaches the process of science. On Mondays and Fridays in the summer, Science in 3D will take you under the sea to explore the ocean and all the unique creatures found within it.
Memorial Day through Labor Day Science in 3D: Ocean Explorer is offered every Monday and Friday at 1:00 pm. The Science in 3D program is hosted by Education Manager Jamie Justice, who will help launch each VR adventure and answer questions about the experience. This program is not recommended for children under 8 or people who experience motion sickness.
Learn how to read the stars and interpret the winds and waves. Navigate without modern instruments. The film tells the story of the Polynesian Voyaging Society and the recovery of the nearly lost art and science of traditional, non-instrument navigation in Hawaii.
On summer vacation at her grandpa’s, Mia discovers a mysterious piece of astronomical machinery. Edek, Mia’s eccentric uncle, tricks the girl into using the tool’s secret powers to change the world’s seasons. She quickly realizes the consequences of what they are going to do. Edek doesn’t want to let the plan go.
Although film portrays pirates as mostly male, many female pirates sailed the seven seas. Learn more about these fearsome females with Christine Brin, Associate Education Curator at the Maritime Museum of Beaufort.
Brin is an experienced museum educator, maritime historian, and public speaker with more than 15 years of experience in the museum education field. She holds a special interest in the Golden Age of Piracy and in women’s history. Christine earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Montclair State University and a master’s in history from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Highlights of her career include working on Mayflower II as an interpreter, coordinating the N.C. Maritime Museum’s annual Murder Mystery Dinners and engaging the many groups who visit the museum every year.
Immerse yourself in the beauty of Chichén Itzá, Mexico. Listen to the story of the ancient Maya civilization. Experience Tales of the Maya Skies.
Explore Maya science, art and mythology. Tales of the Maya Skies inspires and educates through its description of the Maya’s astronomical achievements and how astronomy connected them to the Universe.